Harriet Tubman’s Profile Returns to National Park Service’s ‘Underground Railroad’ Webpage After Outcry

Even people who do not consider themselves “woke” probably woke up shocked on Monday when they discovered that abolitionist Harriet Tubman was removed from a National Park Service’s (NPS) website dedicated to the Underground Railroad.

Tubman, heroically, led many enslaved people to freedom via the Underground Railroad in the 1800s.

Historian Fergus Borderwich, author of a book about the Underground Railroad, described Tubman’s removal from the webpage as “both offensive and absurd.”

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